Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Schaeffer

There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

Isaac Newton

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Phillips Brooks

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Mike Glenn

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you.

John Dryden

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

Martin Luther

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

Martin Luther

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

Martin Luther

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Martin Luther

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

Martin Luther

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Neal A. Maxwell

Let the scriptures refresh you.

Mark Batterson

The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word 'remember' is repeated 250 times in Scripture.

Mike Cooley

Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.

R. C. Sproul

The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

R. C. Sproul

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

John Owen

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

John Owen

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

John Newton

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

N. T. Wright

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

Max Lucado

Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.

Matthew Henry

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

Matthew Henry

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

Mark Driscoll

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

John Shelby Spong

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

Mahatma Gandhi

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Ray Lewis

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

William Law

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

William Tyndale

The Scriptures sprang out of God.

Tertullian

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Randall Terry

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

Tony Campolo

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Tony Campolo

There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.